Date:	Wed, 20 Jul 1994 04:41:15 -1000
From:	pudlo@dbag.ulm.daimlerbenz.com (Robert Pudlo)
Message-Id: <9407201441.AA25340@dagobert>
Organization: Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University
Subject: Camera + Parafoil,

As I reached contact to kiting by being an enthusiastic photograph who wanted to higher his point of view, I still struggle with my parafoil (~2m*1.5m) I built to lift my camera. The SLR with all the stuff like aluminium-frame and receiver (a modified walky-talky) has got a weight of about 3 kg, which seems to be no serious problem for a 3-squaremeter-kite. When fixing the camera about 10 to 15 meter underneath the parafoil, the kite doesn't manage to lift it. The rope is vertical from kite to camera

orizontal (nearly) between the camera and me.
At the moment I hope to solve this problem by lifting the parafoil to ~100 m high and then pull the camera up like a ferry.
Is there anybody out there who had similar problems or a solution for the described situation (maybe my bridle should be changed?).
Does anybody know an easy method to stabilize a parafoil (a 2m turbine did not cause much effect on stability) ?

please contact me at	robert.pudlo@dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM


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Date:	Wed, 20 Jul 1994 16:24:40 -1000
From:	jdc3538@ultb.isc.rit.edu (J.D. Cronin)
Message-Id: <1994Jul21.022440.19075@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Subject: Re: Camera + Parafoil,

In article <9407201441.AA25340@dagobert> pudlo@dbag.ulm.daimlerbenz.com (Robert Pudlo) writes:
>I still struggle with my parafoil (~2m*1.5m) I built to lift my camera. 
>The SLR with all the stuff like aluminium-frame and receiver (a modified
>walky-talky) has got a weight of about 3 kg, which seems to be no serious 
>problem for a 3-squaremeter-kite. When fixing the camera about 10 to 15 
>meter underneath the parafoil, the kite doesn't manage to lift it. The 
>rope is vertical from kite to camera
>orizontal (nearly) between the camera and me.
>Is there anybody out there who had similar problems or a solution for 
>the described situation (maybe my bridle should be changed?).

Sounds like your rig weighs a little too much for the kite to lift.
My 16-oz. (2.2 kg) rig flies well on a 3 or 4 kite train; one 16 square
foot flowform, a 16 square-foot "Painless" parafoil, a 10 foot wingspan
delta, and possibly a 8 foot wingspan delta.  One of the next projects
will be a 60 square-foot flowform parafoil, to cut down on the number
of kites needed.

>Does anybody know an easy method to stabilize a parafoil (a 2m turbine did not cause much effect on stability) ?
>
>please contact me at	robert.pudlo@dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM

If your parafoil dives to one side the bridle may be misadjusted.
Parafoils are a bit of a pain in that respect.  Flowform parafoils
are much easier, having only 3 bridle lines.

Have fun,
Jim


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Date:	Thu, 21 Jul 1994 00:47:00 -1000
From:	malle@dbag.ulm.daimlerbenz.com (Bernhard Malle)
Message-Id: <9407211047.AA26955@dagobert>
Organization: Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University
Subject: Re: Camera + Parafoil,

Hello Robert,

> As I reached contact to kiting by being an enthusiastic photograph who wanted to higher his point of view, I still struggle with my parafoil (~2m*1.5m) I built to lift my camera. The SLR with all the stuff like aluminium-frame and receiver (a modified walky-talky) has got a weight of about 3 kg, which seems to be no serious problem for a 3-squaremeter-kite. When fixing the camera about 10 to 15 meter underneath the parafoil, the kite doesn't manage to lift it. The rope is vertical from kite to came
> 
> orizontal (nearly) between the camera and me.
> At the moment I hope to solve this problem by lifting the parafoil to ~100 m high and then pull the camera up like a ferry.
> Is there anybody out there who had similar problems or a solution for the described situation (maybe my bridle should be changed?).
> Does anybody know an easy method to stabilize a parafoil (a 2m turbine did not cause much effect on stability) ?
> 
> please contact me at	robert.pudlo@dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM

Another lurker of rec.kites who has been listening already some time to this news
group!!

(To tell the truth, Robert is just sitting 10m away from my office, he is a new
colleague of mine). :-))))

And also a person, that composes email in a much too wide xterm-window :-(

I know Robert already since about 6 years, but now that he is working in the same 
office as me, I am sure to bring him from just playing with kites (how did 
Ron Reich say in his book: stage 1 - kite controlls kiter) to being a real kite
expert (whose sewing machine never gets cold....).

Smooth sewing

Bernhard
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| Bernhard Malle                           |
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